Can-Do-Ology: Business meets Personal, falls in love, has several Stuff That Needs Doing offspring, and goes seeking suitable live-in help.
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I no longer work with busy people. I work with people who have a lot on their plates, a lot to do, are inundated with opportunities and projects, and who find it useful to have an extra brain and an extra set of hands to help them accomplish all of it.
I love working with those [...]
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Far and away, the biggest mistake I made starting out in business was making myself too available and responding to email way too often. I wanted to seem competent and trustworthy, and the easiest way I knew to do that was to be perpetually available. I tried to be unavailable as little as possible (bordering [...]
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On Monday, I announced my new email policy of checking email once a day.
The first protest that policy is likely to garner is the panic-response: “But what if there’s an emergency?!”
I’m not worried about that. (And you shouldn’t be either.) Here’s why.
“Emergencies” are rare. Very rare.
People label as an emergency anything from not wanting to [...]
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Email, for many of us, has reached a point where it feels burdensome and out of control on more days than not. Some folks are ditching email entirely–an impulse I can’t claim is unfamiliar, though I’m not prepared to go to that extreme for business reasons.
I’m not alone. Leo declared independence from email. Gwen is [...]
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I’m Marissa, can-do-ologist, perpetual Curious George, and daily adventurer.
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